Ljungby Municipality (''Ljungby kommun'') is a

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Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; sv, Kronobergs län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is ...

, southern

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, where the town

Ljungby Ljungby () is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''köping'', or ''market town'', and did not become a municipality of its own when the fir ...

is seat. In 1971 the ''City of Ljungby'' (1936-1970) was

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with the rural municipalities surrounding it, thus creating the present municipality. In 1974 a minor adjustment of the boundaries took place. There are 19 original entities within the area.

Geography

Ljungby Municipality contains a little more plains than average in

Småland Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...

. Lakes, forests and plains are never far away. The tenth largest lake in Sweden,

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, is located in the north-western part of the municipality. The town Ljungby is visited by thousands of tourists, mainly from Germany, every summer.

Localities

There are 8

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s (also called a ''tätort'' or locality) in Ljungby Municipality. In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters. The small village of Bohok is also located within Ljungby Municipality.

History

Ljungby Municipality traces its history back to the

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. Vikings followed the river Lagan and lived in its vicinity, and one of the locations were in what is now Ljungby Municipality. In the 14th century several important medieval roads went through the municipality. In that century, an inn was established, and this was to form the center of Ljungby town. During the 19th century the area closest to Ljungby itself consisted mostly of sand without any vegetation, and the government released funds to plant trees which would tie together the sand and make it suitable for plants.

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Ljungby: * Ås, Akershus fylke,

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Notability

*The opera singer Christina Nilsson was discovered while performing at the Ljungby market in 1857. *

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bassist

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died on a highway within the municipality when the band's tour bus overturned on 27 September 1986.

Born here

Eskil Erlandsson Lars Eskil Anders Erlandsson (born 25 January 1957) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Rural Affairs from 2010 to 2014, having previously served as Minister for Agriculture from 2006 to 2010. A member of the Centre Party, he was ...

born in Torpa 1957. Former chairman of the Swedish Defence Committee (2002-2006) and current Agriculture ministry(2006-). *

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(1899–1901), born in

Kånna Kånna is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality situated in Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 352 inhabitants in 2010. The name Kånna is guessed to mean "swamp". In this area during the Iron Age people used to settle on higher grou ...

parish. *

Olof Johansson Sten Olof Håkan Johansson (born 31 July 1937) is a Swedish politician, who was the leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1987 to 1998 and Minister for the Environment from 1991 to 1994. Olof Johansson was born in Ljungby, Kalmar County. He ...

(b. 1931), politician, former president of the Swedish Centre Party. * Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer executed in Norway in 1809.

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Ljungby Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Kronoberg County